Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-30

Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Haxelton,s clerk
saw . smoke in the front window of his store
At Brighton. and proceeding to investigate its
cause, found box of fishing lines on sre.
II va done BY globe filed With LIQUID.
.nicn had served - burning glass. Four
dozen OF the lines we're thus ruined. Had il
happened when all we're away, the building
quite likely would have been set on Ere and
another "spoataneous-combus mystery"
been added to the list Of unaccountable con-
nagrations.-The corn factory buildings are
oeing ntted up, and 30 North Waterford,
which had been dead for years, 10 coming up.
Its citizens are catching the spirit of this new
enterprise, and there is no doubt that they
VIII have ere long something better and 9th.
er enterprises which will Re calculated in
every way to build up the interests. increase
the property and wealth of the town.
HANCOCK.
Connors Brothers, the Bar Hsrbor boat.
men, who had the steamer Silver Star las,
year. have chartered her again for this season.
They pay $1,000 and will run her for excur-
sion parties. The boat is we'll adspted for
that business.
DIR. j. L. Hanson, of Pretty Marsh. had a
narrow escape from death on Wednesday
evening. At little past nine o'clock. the
weather being rainy and the night very dark.
the doctor, who was coming down Main street
on the easrerly sidewalk, passed to the right
OF the temporary rail guarding the brink of
the deep sewer cutting near the Marlborough
Hotel and while trying TO find his way into
the street again walked over the brink and
fell into the pit about fourteen feet. He
shouted Justify tor help and was soon found
oy persons in the vicinity and assisted up the
Z Ia M af Obj -
was not killed, or at least disabled BY broken
limbs but he escaped without any serious
injury
The Bangor Commercial hears that a
heavy syndicate, at the head of which 10 Hon.
Henry B. Cleaves. of Portland, has pur-
chased the entire electric light plant, at Bar
llarbor.-Board in some places in Bar Hsr
Dor, at least, will be very high, this summer
-four persons have engaged four rooms at the
Hotel Louisburg for the season. and are to
pay $3.50 week.
+. j. Alley, Of Bar Harbor. has Just re
turned from business trip to Sussex, New
Brunswick, where he has been to visit a very
valuable manganese mine, which he in con-
nection with W. N. Gould, have been sue
cessfully engaged in developing for the past
year. The production area of this mine is
ons of the largest known. and it 10 apparent
ly inexhaustable. Much of the ore shows
test OF over ninety per cent. High grade ore
of manganese is very valuable, and we con-
graduate Messrs. Alley and Gould on their
successful development. They commence
shipping ore Immediately.
The Cherryfeld rifle club team of Eve men
was entered to compete for the prize rifle
offered by the Billiard Repeating Arms Co, ,
of Springfield, Mass, for best score of 200
yards of hand, standard target, thirty shots
to each man Also, for q second match for
gold badge offered to best individual score of
fifty shots on same conditions. First match
to be shot the first week in June, and second
match the first OF July, says the Nachias
Republican.
On . recent evening two deer, q red one
and white one, came out near the house of
B. P. Hodykins, at East Lamoine. They
seemed very tame, and were viewed by the
whole family. Mr.. Hodgkins says the white
deer was one of the most beautiful animals he
ever saw.
LINCOLN.
DR.. Everleth of Wadoboro occasionally
hoists flag which excites some curiosity. 1t
is the old division hospital flag of the second
division Sixth Corps. This flag was waving
over the field hospital at Cedar Creek when
oueTluan mdue MS famous ride from Wlnches-
ter 'twenty miles away" 1t passed through
the campaign around Petersburg and followed
the victorious army to Appomattox. DR..
Everleth, who was surgeon of the Seventh
Maine, had charge of the division hospital.
OXFORD.
Francis H. Hale, a resident of Norway
Lake, attempted to commit suicide, Thursday
He cut two ugly gashes in his
throat with razor and afterwards drew the
razor across his wrist, severing the cords but
escaping the artery. As soon as he was dis
covered, he WAS taken to his residence and
medical assistance summoned. Everything
was done which skill could suggest, but the
wounds inflicted were of such character as
to render it exceedingly doubtful if he can
survive. Mr.. Hale was sergeant in Co. f.
18th Maine Regiment during the war, and
was gallant soldier. During his term Of
service, he received injuries which affected
his head and, since his return, he has been
subject to periodical fits of insanity and has
been more than once sent to the Insane
Hospital at Augusta by his friends. The last
symptoms of insanity were noticed during
the past winter, but it WAS supposed that he
had recovered, although. for some time, he
had been in very dependent mood.